LocationPhilips Lighting

Case study The Toffee Factory

Ouseborn, Newcastle Philips LED Lighting Solutions

“Toffee Factory has amazing lighting and looks stunning at night, and what better way than turning our chimney into a giant ‘glow stick’ to raise awareness of Newcastle and Gateshead’s late night culture event, The Late Shows.”

Lisa Tolan, Centre Manager for Creative Space Management

BackgroundThe Toffee Factory is the gateway development by Xsite Architecture of the

regeneration of the Ouseborn area of Newcastle. It has turned the derelict

Maynards toffee factory into high end office space, comprising 24 serviced

offices aimed at high end creative businesses.

In addition, the areas can be used as artistic spaces and the Toffee Factory

has already been involved in cultural events where the exterior lighting plays

a key role. For example, it was one of the venues of The Late Shows 2012

‘culture crawl’ around Newcastle and Gateshead in May, with the Late Shows

logo projected onto the Toffee Factory’s 30m high chimney.

The solutionLisa Tolan, Centre Manager for Creative Space Management, which acts as

managing agent for Newcastle City Council, commented: “Toffee Factory has

amazing lighting and looks stunning at night, and what better way than turning

our chimney into a giant ‘glow stick’ to raise awareness of

Newcastle and Gateshead’s late night culture event, The Late Shows.”

The lighting was designed by Stainton Lighting Design Services and Philips

LED products were selected to provide the colour changing effects for the

chimney and four arches on the site. These include recessed ColorGraze

PowerCore linear fittings in the arches to provide surface grazing and

wall-wash lighting. ColorGraze fittings are fitted with red, green and blue

LEDs with 30x60 degree beam angles to provide an almost infinite choice of

colours with a high level of saturation.

“The ColorGraze is the best quality product of this kind on the market and,

thanks to the PowerCore system, it also addressed many of the

installation issues we faced with this project,” Stainton’s Anthony Smith

noted. “Philips were also very helpful in providing excellent sample

equipment for a demonstration so that we could give the client a clear

picture of what the final effect would be,” he added.

Providing uplighting to the chimney are surface-mounted ColorReach

PowerCore floodlights, again using red, green and blue LEDs. The wide choice

of beam angles made it easy to achieve a very precise light distribution.

The long life of the LED light sources means the floodlights are unlikely to

require maintenance during the lifetime of the installation, so there is no need

for their ingress protection to be compromised.

In addition to the colour changing LEDs, Philips eW Graze Powercore linear

LED fixtures were used to illuminate the tops of the building. These feature

low profile housing and flexible mounting options to facilitate discreet

placement that blends with the architectural elements.

All of these fittings make use of the integrated Philips PowerCore wiring

system, which ensures rapid, efficient and accurate control of power output

to the fixture directly from the line voltage, eliminating the need for external

power supplies.

If you would like to see more projects or have an enquiry, visit us at

www.philips.co.uk/lighting or email: lighting.uk@philips.com

Fast Facts

Customer

Creative Space Management

Location

Ouseborn, Newcastle

Philips Products

eW Graze Powercore

ColorGraze Powercore

Color Reach Powercore

Project in Partnership with

Stainton Lighting Design Services

Brims Construction Limited

Philips LED lighting products have played a key role in the exterior lighting of the triple RIBA award winning Toffee Factory development in Newcastle. Low energy, vibrant colours, controllability, flexibility, ease of installation and low maintenance were all key factors in the specification of Philips LED solutions.

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Date of release: September 2012

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